UNION  LEAGOE  CLUB 

OF 

NEW  YORK. 


i  CHARTER, 

ARTICLES  OF  ASSOCIATION, 

j  AND 

B  Y  -  L  A.  W  S. 

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I  MAY,  1868. 


CLUB  HOUSE,  MADISON  SQUARE, 
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1868 


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NEW  YOKK. 


CHARTER, 

ARTICLES  OF  ASSOCIATION, 

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MAY,  1868. 


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OFFICERS  FOR  1868. 


JOHN  JAY. 


CHARLES  BUTLER, 
SAMUEL  B.  RUGGLES, 
ALEXANDER  T.  STEWART, 
WILLIAM  C.  BRYANT, 
PETER  COOPER, 
CYRUS  W.  FIELD, 


W.  J.  HOPPIN, 
FRANKLIN  H.  DELANO, 
ELLIOT  C  COWDIN, 
GEORGE  W.  BLUNT, 
EDAVARD  S.  JAFFRAY, 
WILLIAM  H.  LEE. 


J.   LANGDON  WARD. 


GEORGE  CABOT  WARD. 


GEORGE  GRISWOLD, 
JOHN  A.  WEEKS, 
FRANK  E.  HOWE, 
DAVID  VAN  NOSTRAND, 
THEODORE  ROOSEVELT, 
LE  GRAND  B.  CANNON, 
CHARLES  S.  SMITH, 


WILLIAM  T.  BLODGETT, 
DANIEL  F.  APPLETON, 
WILLIAM  H.  FOGG, 
GEORGE  F.  NOYES, 
DORMAN  B.  EATON, 
THOMAS  N.  DALE, 
GEORGE  P.  BRADFORD, 


JOSEPH  H.  CHOATE. 


0FFICEB8, 


Committee  on  gibmksioits. 


N.  PENDLETON  HOSACK, 
ALBON  P.  MAN, 
HENRY  L.  PIERSON, 


PARKER  HANDY, 
NATHANIEL  HAYDEIT, 
JEREMIAH  LOTHROP, 


Wn.TTAM  H.  MAXWELL. 


Committee  on  ^nblitntioits. 


RUSH  C.  HAWKINS, 
SINCLAIR  TOUSEY, 
THOMAS  B.  VAN  BDREN, 


ISAAC  AMES, 
BENJAMIN  W.  BONNEY, 
BENJAMIN  COLLINS, 


CHARLES  A-  DANA. 


ITikarg  Committee, 


ALBERT  MATHEWS, 
JOHN  M.  GUITEAU, 
JOSEPH  B.  VARNUM,  JE., 


ELLIOTT  F.  SHEPARD, 
JOHN  G.  HOLBROOKE, 
EDWARD  WALKER, 
P.  McMARTDJ. 


GEORGE  P.  PDTNAM, 
JOHN  F.  KENSETT, 
RICHARD  BUTLER, 


Committee  on  girt. 

I         JASPER  F.  CROPSEY, 

RICHARD  M.  HUNT, 
1         J.  Q.  A.  WARD, 
VINCENT  COLYER. 


CHARTER. 


AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  "THE  UNION  LEAGUE  CLUB" 
OP  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK. 

PASSED  FEBRUARY  16TH,  1865. 

As  Amended  by  Chap.  160,  Laws  op  1867,  Passed  March  26,  1867. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly  J  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Cornelius  R,  Agnew,  Horatio  Allen,  James  W. 
Beekman,  Henry  W.  Bellows,  Francis  B.  Cutting,  John  A.  Dix, 
Wolcot  Giobs,  John  C.  Green,  George  Griswold,  David  Hoad- 
ley,  Murray  Hoffman,  William  J.  Hoppin,  Charles  King,  Charles 
H.  Marshall,  "VVillard  Parker,  George  T.  Strong,  Jonathan 
Sturges,  Otis  D.  Swan,  Moses  Taylor,  and  such  other  persons  as 
now  are  members  of  an  association  in  the  city  of  New  York 
called  "The  Union  League  Club,"  and  such  persons  as  here- 
after shall  become  members  of  the  corporation  hereby  created, 
are  constituted  a  body  corporate  by  the  name  of  "  The  Union 
League  Club,"  to  be  located  in  the  city  of  New  York,  to  pro- 
mote, encourage,  and  sustain,  by  all  proper  means,  absolute  and 
unqualified  loyalty  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  to 
discountenance  and  rebuke,  by  moral  and  social  influences,  all 
disloyalty  to  said  Government,  and  every  attempt  against  the 
integrity  of  thv  nation ;  and  in  furtherance  of  these  objects,  to 
establish  and  maintain  a  Library  and  a  Gallery  of  Art  and 
Military  Trophies,  especially  devoted  to  the  perpetuation  and 
illustration  of  the  patriotic  services  and  sacrifices  by  which  tho 
existing  struggle  against  rebellion  has  been  characterized, 


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Sec.  2.  Said  corporation  sliall  liave  power  to  make  and  adopt 
a  constitution,  by-laws,  rules  and  regulations,  for  the  admission, 
suspension,  and  expulsion  of  its  members,  and  their  government, 
the  collection  of  fees  and  dues,  the  number  and  election  of  its 
officers,  and  to  define  their  duties,  and  for  the  safe  keeping  of 
its  property,  and,  from  time  to  time,  to  alter,  modify,  or 
change,  such  constitution,  by-laws,  rules  and  regulations.  Until 
an  election  shall  be  held  pursuant  to  such  constitution,  by-laws, 
rules  and  regulations,  the  officers,  for  the  time  being,  of  the 
association  mentioned  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  shall  be 
the  officers  of  the  corporation  hereby  created. 

Sec.  3.  Said  corporation  may  purchase  and  hold,  or  lease 
any  real  or  personal  estate  necessary  and  proper  for  the  pur- 
poses of  its  incorporation,  provided  they  shall  not  hold  any 
real  estate,  the  value  of  which  shall  exceed  five  hundred 
thousand  dollars ;  and  the  said  corporation  may  issue  bonds, 
and  may  execute  mortgages  upon  their  real  estate  to  an  amount 
not  exceeding  the  value  of  such  real  estate,  and  the  improve- 
ments thereon. 

Sec.  4.  Said  corporation  shall  possess  the  general  powers 
and  be  subject  to  the  restrictions  and  liabilities  prescribed  in 
the  third  title  of  the  eighteenth  chapter  of  the  first  part  of  the 
Revised  Statutes. 

Sec.  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


UNION  LEAGUE  CLUB, 


OF  NEW  YOKK. 


ARTICLES  OF  ASSOCIATION. 

1.  The  condition  of  membership  shall  be  absolute  and  an- 
qualified  loyalty  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  and 
unwavering  support  of  its  efforts  for  the  suppression  of  the  Re- 
bellion. 

2.  The  primary  object  of  the  Association  shall  be  to  discoun 
tenance  and  rebuke,  by  moral  and  social  influences,  all  disloy- 
alty to  the  Federal  Government,  and  to  that  end  the  members 
will  use  every  proper  means  in  public  and  private. 

3.  We  pledge  ourselves,  by  every  means  in  our  power,  collec- 
tively and  individually,  to  resist  to  the  uttermost  every  attempt 
agaiEi^t  the  territorial  integrity  of  the  nation. 

ADDITIONAL  ARTICLE  OP  ASSOCIATION,  ADOPTED  JANUARY  11, 

1866. 

4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Club  to  resist  and  expose  cor- 
ruption, and  promote  reform  in  our  National,  State,  and  Muni- 
cipal affairs ;  and  to  elevate  the  idea  of  American  citizenship- 


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BY-LAWS. 


OF  OFFICERS  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

1.  The  OfiScers  of  the  Union  League  Club  shall  be  a 
President,  twelve  Vice-Presidents,  a  Secretary,  a  Treas- 
urer, three  Auditors,  and  the  members  of  the  following 
Standing  Committees  :  Executive  Committee,  Committee 
on  Admissions,  Committee  on  Publications,  Committee  on 
Arts  and  Relics,  Committee  on  Library  ;  all  of  whom  shall 
be  elected  by  the  members  of  the  Club,  at  the  annual  meet- 
ings, and  shall  serve  until  their  successors  shall  have  been 
elected  respectively. 

2.  The  President,  or,  in  his  absence,  the  Vice-President 
senior  in  order  of  election,  and  present,  shall  preside  at  all 
meetings  of  the  Club.  In  the  absence  of  the  President  and 
all  the  Vice-Presidents,  a  presiding  officer  shall  be  chosen 
without  ballot  from  the  members  of  the  Club.  The  Pres- 
ident shall  be,  ex  officio,  a  member  of  the  Executive  and 
other  standing  Committees. 

3.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  Club,  and  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  the  Com- 
mittee on  Admissions  (of  which  Committees  he  shall  be,  ex 
officio,  a  member),  and  of  all  matters  of  which  a  record 
shall  be  deemed  advisable  by  the  Club,  or  by  said  Commit- 

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tees.  The  records  of  the  Secretary,  except  those  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Committee  on  Admissions,  shall,  at  all 
reasonable  times,  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  any  member 
of  the  Club.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  notify 
members  of  their  election,  to  keep  a  roll  of  the  members 
of  the  Club,  to  issue  notices  for  all  meetings  of  the  Clul) 
(with  a  brief  mention  of  the  business  to  be  transacted 
when  a  special  meeting  is  called),  and  to  conduct  the  cor- 
respondence. He  shall  also  be  the  keeper  of  the  seal  of 
the  Club. 

4.  The  Treasurer  shall  collect,  and,  under  the  direction 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  disburse  the  funds.  He  shall 
keep  the  accounts  of  the  Club  in  books  belonging  to  it, 
which  shall  be  at  all  times  open  to  the  inspection  of  the 
Executive  Committee  ;  he  shall  report  in  writing  at  each 
quarterly  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee,  the  balance 
of  money  on  hand,  and  the  outstanding  obligations  of  the 
Club  as  far  as  practicable,  and  he  shall  make  a  full  report, 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Club,  of  the  receipts  and  dis- 
bursements of  the  past  year,  with  such  suggestions  as  to 
the  financial  management  of  the  Club,  as  he  may  deem 
proper.  He  shall  be,  ecc  officio,  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  and  Committee  on  Admissions. 

5.  The  Secretary  and  Treasurer  shall  respectively  have 
power,  with  the  approval  of  the  Executive  Committee,  to 
employ,  at  the  expense  of  the  Club,  such  clerical  aid  as 
may  be  necessary  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties. 

6.  The  general  affairs  of  the  Club  shall  be  managed  by  the 
Executive  Committee,  consisting  of  fifteen  members.  The 
Executive  Committee  shall,  subject  in  all  respects  (except 
as  to  expenditures)  to  such  instructions  and  limitations  as 


BY-LAWS. 


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may  be  from  time  to  time  prescribed  by  the  Glub,  exer- 
cise a  general  superintendence  over  the  internal  affairs 
of  the  Club  ;  shall  control  and  manage  its  property,  and 
enforce  the  preservation  of  order  and  obedience  to  its  rules. 
All  appropriations  of  the  funds  of  the  Club,  or  of  the  use 
of  the  hall  or  club-rooms  for  other  than  Club  purposes, 
shall  be  made  by  the  Executive  Committee.  It  shall  make 
all  necessary  purchases  and  contracts,  but  shall  have  no 
power  to  make  the  Club  liable  for  any  debt  or  debts  to  an 
amount  exceeding  one-half  that  which,  at  the  time  of  con- 
tracting the  same,  shall  be  in  the  Treasurer's  hands  in 
cash,  and  not  subject  to  prior  liabilities.  It  shall  also 
have  power  to  solicit  subscriptions  of  money  from  loyal 
persons  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  objects 
of  the  Club.  At  every  annual  meeting  it  shall  report  its 
proceedings,  and  may,  at  any  time,  recommend  such  meas- 
ures as  it  may  deem  advisable.  The  Executive  Committee 
shall  appoint  a  House  Committee  of  three  members,  and 
may  from  time  to  time  declare  their  duties.  Whenever  a 
Special  Committee  shall  be  appointed,  a  majority  thereof 
shall  be  those  not  members  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

1.  The  Executive  Committee,  of  which  eight  shall  be  a 
quorum,  except  during  the  months  of  June,  July,  August, 
September,  and  October,  when  five  members  shall  consti- 
tute a  quorum,  shall  meet  at  least  once  in  every  month  for 
the  transaction  of  business.  Vacancies  may  be  filled  by 
the  Committee  for  the  residue  of  the  term. 

8.  The  Committee  on  Admissions  shall  consist  of  seven 
members.  Vacancies  may  be  filled  by  the  Committee  for 
the  residue  of  the  term.  The  names  and  residences  of  all 
persons  proposed  for  admission,  with  the  name  and  signa- 
ture of  the  member  proposing  them,  and  of  the  member 


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BY-LAWS. 


seconding  them,  and  date  of  posting,  shall  be  first  posted, 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  Club-IIouse,  at  least  fifteen 
days.  They  shall  then  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Admissions,  the  proceedings  of  which  Committee  thereon 
shall  be  secret  and  confidential,  and  no  member  of  such 
Committee  shall  be  questioned  as  to  the  action  of  the  Com- 
mittee. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  to  make 
careful  examination,  and  to  consider  all  communications  in 
reference  to  each  individual  proposed  ;  they  shall  pass 
upon  each  name  separately.  The  Committee  shall  fix  its 
own  place  and  time  of  meeting.  At  every  monthly  meet- 
ing the  Committee  shall  report  the  names  of  such  persons 
proposed  as  they  recommend  for  admission  ;  the  names  of 
persons  proposed  as  resident  members  in  one  list,  and  the 
names  of  those  proposed  as  non-resident  members  in  a 
separate  list,  and  the  Club  shall  thereupon  proceed  to  vote, 
by  ballot,  upon  the  names  so  recommended.  Negative 
votes  to  the  number  of  one-tenth  of  those  cast  shall  exclude 
any  person.  Members  shall  be  elected  only  at  the  regular 
monthly  meetings,  but  any  person  elected  as  a  non-resident 
member,  may  at  any  time  be  classed  as  a  resident  mem- 
ber, by  signifying  his  intention  to  that  effect  to  the  Treas- 
urer, and  paying  the  balance  of  the  admission  fee  ;  and 
shall  thenceforth  pay  the  full  annual  dues. 

9.  No  person  shall  be  proposed  or  admitted  to  be  a 
member  of  the  Club  who  is  not  at  the  time  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  having  the  right  to  vote,  and  who  does  not 
answer  to  the  following  requirement  of  the  original  Ar- 
ticles of  Association  of  the  Club  : 

"The  condition  of  membership  shall  be  absolute  and 
unqualified  loyalty  to  the  Gaverntnant  of  the  United 
States." 


BY-LAWS. 


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And  every  person  elected  a  member  shall  pledge  himself 
to  do  all  in  his  power  to  carry  out  the  primary  objects  of 
the  Club,  which  are  to  discountenance  and  rebuke,  by 
moral  and  social  influences,  and  by  all  proper  means,  both 
in  public  and  private,  all  disloyalty  to  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment, and  to  resist  to  the  uttermost  every  attempt 
against  the  territorial  integrity  of  the  nation. 

10.  No  candidate  who  shall  have  failed  to  be  elected  by 
the  Club  shall  be  again  proposed  for  one  year. 

If  any  person  elected  shall  not,  within  three  months  after 
notice  of  his  election,  left  at,  or  sent  to  his  address,  as 
specified  by  the  member  proposing  him,  signify  his  accept- 
ance, sign  the  roll  annexed  to  the  Act  of  Incorporation, 
and  pay  his  admission  fee  and  annual  dues,  he  shall  be 
deemed  to  have  declined  to  become  a  member. 

11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Publications 
to  publish  such  papers  as  shall  tend  to  awaken,  extend, 
and  perpetuate  the  vital  faith  of  the  fathers  of  the  Repub- 
lic, namely,  that  National  Union  is  necessary  to  the  Ameri- 
can people  for  the  preservation  of  liberty,  maintenance  of 
law,  security  against  civil  discord,  protection  from  foreign 
aggression,  continuance  of  social  and  commercial  prosper- 
ity, and  transmission  of  national  glory;  and. to  impress  on 
the  intelligent  and  educated  classes  the  duty  of  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  conduct  of  public  affairs.  Such  Commit- 
tee shall  consist  of  seven  members,  and  have  power  to  fill 
vacancies.  There  shall  be  a  special  publication  fund  dis- 
tinct from  the  general  fund  of  the  Club,  which  shall  be  dis- 
bursed by  the  Treasurer  only  on  the  order  of  the  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Publications. 


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BY-LAWS. 


12.  The  Library  Committee  shall  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers, and  shall  have  general  charge  of  the  Library  and 
Reading  Room,  with  authority  to  expend  such  sums  of 
money  upon  the  same  as  may  be  voted  therefor  by  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee,  or  procured  by  voluntary  subscription. 
It  shall  have  power  to  fill  vacancies  for  the  residue  of  the 
term. 

13.  The  Committee  on  Arts  and  Relics  shall  consist  of 
seven  members,  and  shall  have  power  to  fill  vacancies.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  to  expend  such  sums  as 
shall  be  appropriated  by  the  Executive  Committee,  or  ob- 
tained by  voluntary  subscription,  for  procuring  works  of 
art  and  relics,  and  to  make  all  proper  efforts  to  enlarge  and 
display  the  collection. 

14.  The  duty  of  the  Auditors  shall  be  to  audit  and  settle 
the  accounts  of  the  Treasurer,  and  to  present  their  report 
thereof  at  each  annual  meeting.  They  shall  have  power 
to  fill  vacancies  in  their  number,  and  two  of  them  shall  be 
a  quorum. 

15.  Any  officer  may  be  removed  for  cause,  at  any  meet- 
ing of  the  Club,  upon  two  weeks'  notice,  and  any  vacancy 
in  any  office  may  be  filled  for  the  residue  of  the  term  by  the 
Club,  at  any  meeting  thereof,  except  as  herein  otherwise 
provided. 

Neglect  on  the  part  of  any  member  of  a  Standing  or 
Special  Committee  to  attend  three  consecutive  meetings  of 
such  Committee,  shall  be  deemed  a  tender  of  his  resigna- 
tion of  his  office,  which  the  Committee  may  accept,  unless 
an  explanation  of  such  neglect,  satisfactory  to  the  Com- 
mittee, shall  be  given. 


BY-LAWS. 


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OF  MEETINGS. 

16.  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Club  shall  be  held  on  the 
second  Thursday  in  January,  at  8  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  eloc- 
ution of  officers,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business 
as  may  come  before  it.  At  such  election  the  polls  shall  re- 
main open  two  hours. 

^  At  the  monthly  meeting  in  December,  in  each  year,  a 
Committee  of  seven  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Club  at  large, 
who  shall  report,  at  the  annual  meeting,  a  list  of  candi- 
dates for  the  various  offices. 

The  rules  and  orders  of  Cushing's  Manual  shall  govern 
the  meetings  of  the  Club,  so  far  as  they  are  applicable  and 
not  inconsistent  with  these  By-Laws. 

Seventy-five  members  shall  be  a  quorum  at  all  meetinfrs 
of  the  Club.  ^ 

11.  There  shall  be  a  monthly  meeting,  for  the  election 
of  members,  and  the  transaction  of  business,  on  the  second 
Thursday  of  every  month,  at  8  p.  m. 

^  18.  Special  meetings  of  the  Club  may  be  called  at  any 
time  by  order  of  the  President,  with  the  approval  of  three 
members  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  shall  be  called 
by  the  Secretary  whenever  the  President  or  any  Vice-Pres- 
ident shall  be  thereunto  requested  in  writing  by  twenty- 
five  members,  setting  forth  the  purpose  of  such  meeting. 
At  any  such  special  meeting  no  business  other  than  that 
specified  in  the  call,  shall  be  considered,  except  by  unani- 
mous consent.  Such  special  meetings  shall  be  called  by 
notice  in  one  or  more  newspapers. 

19.  At  the  meetings  of  the  Club,  the  order  of  business, 
so  far  as  the  character  and  nature  of  the  meeting  may  ad- 
mit, shall  be  as  follows  : 


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1.  Reading  the  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting. 

2.  Election  of  new  members. 

3.  Reports  of  Standing  Committees. 

4.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 
f).  General  business. 

But  this  order  of  business  may  be^changed  by  a  majority 

of  the  meeting.  . 

All  Special  Committees  for  any  purpose  shall  be  appomted 
by  the  presiding  ofBcer,  unless  otherwise  ordered. 

All  resolutions  expressing  the  sentiments  of  the  Club 
on  any  public  matter,  if  objected  to  by  twenty  members, 
shall  be  referred  to  a  standing  or  special  Committee,  who 
shall  report  thereon  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Club. 

20.  No  stranger  shall  be  present  at  any  meeting  of  the 
Club^  except  he  shall  be  specially  invited  by  the  President 
or  the  House  Committee. 

21.  All  elections,  except  as  otherwise  provided,  shall  be 
by  ballot,  and  a  majority  of  votes  cast  shall  be  sufficient, 
except  for  the  election  of  new  members. 

22.  Proxies  shall  not  be  permitted. 


OF  MEMBERS. 

23.  No  member  shall  receive  any  salary,  emolument,  or 
profit  from  the  funds  of  the  Club,  unless  the  same  be  es- 
pecially appropriated  by  the  Club  and  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. 


24.  No  member  shall  give  any  money  or  gratuity  to 
servant  of  the  Club. 


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25.  All  resignations  shall  be  made  in  writing  to  the 
Executive  Committee  ;  but  if  made  after  the  second  Thurs- 
day of  January,  such  resignation  shall  not  discharge  the 
member  presenting  it  from  his  dues  for  the  current  year 
All  interest  in  the  property  of  the  Club,  of  members  re- 
signing, or  otherwise  ceasing  to  be  members,  shall  be 
vested  in  the  Club. 

26.  If  the  conduct  of  a  member  shall  appear  to  the 
Executive  Committee  to  be  disorderly,  in  violation  of  the 
rules,  prejudicial  to  the  interests  or  character  of  the 
Club,  or  contrary  to  its  Charter  or  By-Laws  ;  or  if,  by  his 
acts  or  conversation,  he  shall  seem  to  the  Committee  to 
manifest  a  spirit  of  disloyalty  to  the  Government  of  the 
United  States,  the  Committee  shall  inform  him  thereof  in 
writing,  and,  if  the  nature  of  the  offence  in  its  opinion  re- 
quire It,  request  him  to  resign. 

21.  Should  such  information  or  request  be  disreo-arded 
the  Executive  Committee  shall  refer  the  matter  to  the  next 
stated  meeting  of  the  Club,  or  to  a  special  meetino-  thereof  • 
of  which  reference  not  less  than  two  weeks'  written  notice 
shall  be  given  to  the  offending  member. 

28.  At  such  meeting  the  nature  of  the  offence  shall  be 
considered,  and  the  member  complained  of  may  be  censured 
or  expelled  by  a  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present 
A  motion  involving  censure  or  expulsion  shall  be  decided 
by  ballot. 

29.  The  number  of  resident  members  is  limited  to  one 
thousand. 

The  admission  fee  of  members  shall  be  fifty  dollars 
The  annual  dues  of  members  hereafter  accruing  shallbe 

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fifty  dollars,  payable,  in  advance,  on  the  second  Thursday 
of  January,  at  which  time  the  fiscal  year  shall  commence. 
If  not  paid  within  thirty  days  thereafter,  the  name  of  the 
defaulter  shall  be  posted  by  the  Treasurer  in  a  conspicuous 
place  in  the  Club-House  ;  and,  should  he  neglect  payment, 
without  good  cause,  until  the  first  day  of  April,  he  shall, 
ipso  facto,  cease  to  be  a  member.    Provided,  that  upon  his 
written  application,  and  the  payment  of  all  dues  to  the  date 
thereof,  the  Executive  Committee  may,  upon  such  terms  as 
it  may  deem  proper,  remit  the  penalty  of  this  By-law  ;  of 
all  which  the  Secretary  shall  make  a  minute.    And  pro- 
vided further,  that  the  penalty  of  this  By-Law  shall  not 
apply  to  the  case  of  a  resident  member  who  may  be  ill  or 
absent  from  the  city  of  New  York. 

Any  person,  having  ceased  to  be  a  member  of  the  Club, 
since  January  1,  1865,  by  resignation  or  non-payment  of 
dues  whose  name  has  been  posted  as  a  candidate  fifteen 
days',  recommended  by  the  Committee  on  Admissions,  and 
passed  by  the  Club,  may  be  readmitted  without  payment 
of  the  admission  fee. 

30.  Any  member  who  has  paid  an  admission  fee  and  the 
annual  dues  for  one  year,  and  who  maybe  absent  from  the 
city  of  New  York  for  a  continuous  period  of  a  year,  shall 
be  exempted  from  the  payment  of  the  annual  dues  for  the 
period  of  his  absence,  if  he  shall  give  previous  written 
notice  to  the  Treasurer  of  his  intention  so  to  be  absent. 

31  Persons  who  are  citizens  of  the  United  States  and 
non-residents  of  the  city  of  New  York,  also  officers  of  the 
army  and  navy,  and  clergymen  of  the  United  States  where- 
ever  residing,  otherwise  being  eligible,  may,  with  the  con- 
currence of  the  Committee  on  Admissions,  be  admitted  to 
membership  in  the  Club,  upon  payment  of  half  the  rates  of 


BY-LAWS. 


admission  fees  and  annual  dues.  Provided,  that  when 
elected,  it  shall  be  announced  to  which  class  such  appli- 
cant belongs,  and  provided,  that  when  any  person  so  elected 
ceases  to  belong  to  said  class,  by  becoming  a  resident  of 
the  city  of  New  York,  he  shall  thereafter  be  liable  to  pay 
full  annual  dues,  and  the  balance  of  the  admission  fee;  Pro- 
vided, also,  that  such  members  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
vote  while  belonging  to  such  non-resident  class.  Members 
who  are  oflScers  of  the  army  or  navy,  may,  on  giving  notice 
to  the  Treasurer,  be  discharged  from  liability  for  dues  while 
absent  from  the  city  for  one  or  more  years  on  official  ser- 
vice. 

32.  Persons  who  shall  be  elected  members  of  the  Club 
after  six  months  of  any  fiscal  year  shall  have  expired,  shall 
pay  only  half  the  amount  of  dues  for  that  fiscal  year  other- 
wise required. 

33.  The  Club  may,  at  any  regular  meeting,  elect  honorary 
members,  who  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. Such  honorary  members  shall  have  all  the  privi- 
leges of  the  Club  except  voting  at  meetings  and  being 
eligible  for  office. 

OF  STRANGERS. 

34.  X  member  may  personally  introduce  non-residents 
to  the  rooms  of  the  Club  for  one  day,  their  names,  and  that 
of  the  member  introducing  them,  and  the  date  of  such  in- 
troduction, having  been  first  entered  in  a  book  to  be  kept 
for  that  purpose. 

The  Executive  Committee  may  make  regulations  as  to 
the  extension  of  the  privileges  of  the  Club  to  non-resident 
strangers. 


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BY-LAWS. 


No  resident  of  thq  City  of  New  York,  not  a  member  of 
the  Club,  shall  be  admitted  to  the  Club-House,  except 
to  the  reception-room  and  private  dining-rooms,  without 
the  consent  of  the  House  Committee  first  obtained. 

35.  The  Executive  Committee  may  give  a  written  invi- 
tation to  any  stranger,  which  shall  entitle  him  to  visit  the 
Club-House  for  one  month,  or  such  longer  period  as  the 
Committee  may  deem  proper. 

36.  Residents  of  the  City  of  New  York,  not  being  mem- 
bers, shall  not  be  admitted  to  the  rooms  of  the  Club  more 
than  once. 

37.  No  person,  except  a  non-resident  foreigner,  shall  be 
admitted  into  the  Club-House,  who  does  not  give  his  un- 
wavering support  to  the  Government ;  and  if  any  person 
disloyal  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States  be  know- 
ingly introduced  to  the  Club-House  by  a  member  of  the 
Club,  such  member  shall  be  expelled  for  the  offence. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

38.  No  person  shall  take  from  the  Club-House  a  news- 
paper, pamphlet,  book,  or  other  article  the  property  of  the 
Club,  nor  mutilate,  deface,  or  destroy  the  same. 

39.  Books,  pamphlets,  and  newspapers,  shall  not  be  re- 
moved from  the  reading  and  drawing-rooms. 

40.  Any  motion  or  resolution  offered  for  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Club  shall,  at  the  request  of  any  member,  be 
reduced  to  writing  before  it  is  acted  upon. 


BY-LAWS. 


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41.  The  Club  shall  have  a  seal,  badge,  and  standard, 
which  shall  be  devised  by  the  Executive  Committee  and 
approved  by  the  Club. 

42.  A  By-Law  of  the  Club  may  be  amended,  or  a  new 
By-Law  made,  at  any  regular  meeting  of  the  Club,  the 
proposer  having  posted  upon  the  notice-board  the  words  of 
the  proposed  alteration  or  addition,  for,  at  least,  thirty 
days  immediately  preceding  said  meeting,  when,  if  two- 
thirds  of  those  present  shall  vote  in  favor  of  the  proposed 
alteration  or  amendment,  the  same  shall  be  adopted. 

43.  The  Executive  Committee  shall  have  power  to  make 
such  other  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with  the  Charter 
or  these  By-Laws,  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  for  the 
protection  of  the  property  of  the  Club,  the  management  of 
the  Club-House,  and  the  preservation  of  good  order. 


